The only proble­m this time is the massiv­e Indian presen­ce inside Afghan­istan — The writer can be reached at Twitter @Imran_Jan. American allies were American enemies before or would be enemies at some point in future. Japan was a formidable enemy of the United States. They made war with each other, which ended with the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Later, through the Treaty of San Francisco, the United…

It is merely a repeti­tion of the boring, bias laden anti-ISI narrat­ive The writer can be reached at Twitter @Imran_Jan. Yet another ISI-bashing book unsurprisingly by Steve Coll. It is merely a repetition of the boring and bias laden anti-ISI narrative. It is a bellyache for some that the ISI is an organisation, which blocks Indian designs of…

Muhamm­ad Bin Salman is all over the place The writer can be reached at @Imran_Jan. Mohammad Bin Salman or MBS in March pledged to invest $400 billion in the US in 10 years. Back then, Khashoggi was an irritant for the 33-year-old Prince because Khashoggi was criticising him in his…

KSA came up with a laugha­ble face-saving fictio­n, that some rogue office­rs killed Khasho­ggi in an operat­ion gone awry The writer can be reached at @Imran_Jan. Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi citizen and American legal resident, went inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, to obtain some paperwork for his wedding. Just one last thing before a happy…

49% of the Americ­an popula­tion says that the United States has failed to achiev­e its goals in Afghan­istan The writer can be reached at Twitter @Imran_Jan A survey done by the Pew Research Centre has concluded that about half (49%) of the American population says that the United States has failed to achieve its goals in Afghanistan. Their…

One of the most common misconceptions about democracy is that the ballot ensures its advent. The truth, however, can be deciphered by simply inverting the positions of the two; the ballot comes after democracy. Democracy is a culture, an understanding, a realisation, a struggle, a quest for equal rights, freedom…

World needs to fathom the nefari­ous Indian design­s The writer can be reached at @Imran_Jan. The general belief is that much could be learnt from history and that history has answers to complex conflicts. However, we must always take that argument with a grain of salt. History is but an ocean of lies. History needs to be…

My phone sounded the notification alarm. As I looked at it, there was an email notification from the New York Times saying “The Times is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous op-ed essay.” The very nature of the story as well as the title got me excited. I…